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H U G L E I K U R D A G S S O N

L O A H L I N H J A L M T Y S D O T T I R

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C O M I C S

HUGL EIK U R DAGS SON (b.1977) is Iceland’s uncrowned prince of the

graphic novel. His work has received a great deal of praise both in Iceland and

abroad, although some people look on his comic strips as childish scribbles.

dagsson.com

The Very Worst of Dagsson2016

Hugleikur Dagsson has drawn thousands of

cartoons. But here are only 101 of them. Be-

cause you’re probably in a hurry. Rarely have

simple line drawings been made to enact the

kinds of scenarios found in Icelandic artist

Hugleikur Dagsson’s cartoons. From the

absurd to the offensive to the immoral,

Dagsson includes every taboo out there.

PAPERBACK

104 pp

14,5 x 10,5 cm

English translation available

“Tasteful? No. Funny? Yes”

THE TELEGRAPH

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C O M I C S

End 1: RevelationEnd 2: MisfortuneEnd 3: Up & DownEnd 4: MumOpinberun, 2012

Ógæfa, 2013

Ofan & neðan, 2014

Mamma, 2015

A series presents different scenarios for the end of the

world. Aliens invade the Earth in the first title, Revela-

tion, and use the Book of Revelations as a guide on how

to destroy mankind. This is what happens when sci-

ence meets religion. In Misfortune, illustrated by Ran

Flygenring, Reykjavik suffers a zombie invasion during

Gay Pride Weekend. Fortunately Eurovision hero Paul

Oscar saves the day.

Up & Down, illustrated by Don Kenn and based on

the lore of H.P. Lovecraft explains what happens when

artists try to save the world with Neo-Utopianism. But

what they don’t know is that they are in fact conjuring

up the ancient god, Cthulhu.

Mum is the fourth book in Dagsson’s apocalypse series.

This time it’s the turn of wunderkind Petur Antonsson

who illustrated the massive disaster in a masterful way.

This is the story of a single mum who has a tiny baby

that grows. And grows. And grows. And grows.

PAPERBACK

70 pp

14,5 x 10,5 cm

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BestSellers2015

A book that will teach you absolutely nothing

about world literature. Are you one of those

people who hasn t read any books? Are you to-

tally ignorant when it comes to Dickens or Aus-

ten or Dostoyevsky? Do you feel stupid when

your friends discuss world literature? Well, this

book will make you even stupider.

Icelandic cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson scru-

tinizes classic book titles with childish humor

in this rather unintellectual collection of silly

drawings.

PAPERBACK

72 pp

10,5 x 15 cm

English translation available

Sold to:

Finland (Atena)

C O M I C S

Pop HitsLyrical Cartoons, 2016

People have been misunderstanding song lyrics

since the dawn of time, but no one as much as

Icelandic cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson. This

book collects all of his misunderstandings in

one volume.

PAPERBACK

199 pp

14,5 x 10,5 cm

English translation available

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Think of theChildrenHvað með börnin?, 2015

A new collection of Hugleikur Dagsson car-

toons. Brimming with outrageous jokes about

abortion, religion and poop. The first part was 

created between 2012-2015, the middle part

Dagsson composed during two days for snap-

chat and the rest was made yesterday. Not for

small children. Just big children.

PAPERBACK

200 pp

15 x 15 cm

English translation available

Sold to: Finland (Atena)

C O M I C S

Where’s God?Hvar er Guð? 2015

Many have searched for Waldo in the Where’s

Waldo? series. And many have even found him

in midst of the multitude on the crowded pages

of the book. Hugleikur Dagsson has created an

Icelandic version of the game, except here the

search is for God almighty himself. Can you

find God? Do you know where he is?PAPERBACK

30 pp

26 x 33 cm

English translation available

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PAPERBACK

224 pp

10,5 x 15 cm

English translation available

Sold to: Spain (Anagrama)

C O M I C S

“It’s just this random collection of drawings

by some guy! Basically, if you and some

buddies sat down at a bar, and scribbled

some crude doodles of fart jokes onto a

napkin, and then stapled those napkins

together, you have this book.”

ANOTHER GUY ON AMAZON.COM

You are NothingMy Pussy is HungryI Hate Dolphins2014

2013

2013

You are nothing. Your friends are nothing. Your

parents are nothing. Your siblings are nothing.

I am nothing. Nobody is nothing. There is noth-

ing nowhere, at all. Except this book, which is

something. Rarely have simple line drawings

been made to enact the kinds of scenarios

found in Icelandic artist Hugleikur Dagsson’s

cartoons. From the absurd to the offensive to

the immoral, Dagsson includes every taboo out

there.

“Cannibalism, incest and general

mayhem. And that’s just for starters.”

THE GUARDIAN

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Kisi, the One-Eyed Cat and the Reces-sion – Escape from Reykjavik Eineygði kötturinn Kisi og ástandið –

flóttinn frá Reykjavík, 2009

Kisi is back and is as resourceful and homicidal

as ever. The one-eyed-cat has to grapple with

the recession with his friends. The book fea-

tures a possessed curly-haired martyr, an un-

understanding publisher, and the underworld of

Icelandic genetics which may hold the key to the

future of this tormented nation.

PAPERBACK

64 pp

10,5 x 15 cm

English translation available

PAPERBACK

56 pp

10,5 x 15 cm

English translation available

Kisi, the One- Eyed Cat and the mysteries of EyjafjallajökullEineygði kötturinn Kisi og leyndar-

dómar Eyjafjallajökuls, 2010

Kisi is back and this time he is better drawn

than ever before. The one-eyed-cat has had his

heart broken and so he goes to the country side

with his friends to recover. But before you know

it they run into horrible criminals, mutant

sharks, man eating santa clauses and an erupt-

ing Eyjafjallajökull. The Kisi series of books

have been popular with readers of all ages.

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This Will Bury You

Should You be Buying this?

Is This Some Kind of Joke?

Is This Supposed to be Funny?

Should you be laughing at this?

Jarðið okkur, cartoons, 2008

Kaupið okkur, cartoons, 2007

Fylgið okkur, cartoons, 2006

Bjargið okkur, cartoons, 2005

Forðist okkur, cartoons, 2005

Rarely have simple line drawings been made to

enact the kinds of scenarios found in Icelandic

artist Hugleikur Dagsson’s cartoons. From the

absurd to the offensive to the immoral, Dags-

son includes every taboo out there. Dagsson’s

sweet little cartoons took the Icelandic counter-

culture scene by storm becoming a best-seller

in Iceland. The stage play from Should you be

laughing at this? won the Best Play of 2005

award in Iceland’s main national newspaper.

1001 ABOUT USUm okkur, 2006

1108 pp with 1001 drawings from the

following books:

C O M I C S

PAPERBACK AND HARDCOVER

1108 pp

15 x 21 cm

English translation available

Sold to:

Brazil (Hedra); Italy (Arnoldo Mondadori/ISBN);

Finland (Atena); Norway (Gyldendal); US (Harper-

Collins); Hungary (Partvonal); Germany (Rowohlt);

France (Sonatine/Warum); Sweden (Kartago); UK/

ANZ (Penguin); Estonia (Paljasjalg OÜ)

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LOA HLIN HJALMTYSDOTTIR (b.1979) studied fine arts at the Icelandic 

Academy of Art and Illustration at Parson s New School for Design, NYC. She s

been illustrating children s books, editorials and writing comics professionally

since 2005. In 2005 she also started the band FM Belfast with her husband. In

2016 she graduated from the master s program of Creative Writing from the

University of Iceland.

Why are We Still Here?2017

Diary of an islander: Instead of gazing at the

sky in the hope of seeing the Northern lights,

we spend our nights watching American TV

shows and eating chocolate covered licorice or

licorice covered chocolate. When the endless

days and nights of summer return, they erase

the winter from our memory. If we didn’t have

the capacity to forget the dark winter nights we

would probably have left a long time ago.

PAPERBACK

96 pp

17 x 17 cm

English translation available

“Uncomfortable truth”FRETTATIMINN

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LoaboratoriumNew Investigations May Have Uncov-

ered New Fintings , 2015

Loaboratorium is the research lab of Loa Hlin

Hjalmtysdottir, an illustrator and musician

in the popular band FM Belfast. Among the

laboratory’s research topics are human misery,

uncomfortable family dynamics, body hair,

overconsumption of various stripes, and much,

much more. When the world ends soon, all that

will remain is this book and a few cat videos on

the internet.

• Nominated for The Icelandic Women s Literature Prize 2014

• Nominated for DV Cultural Prize for Literature

PAPERBACK

98 pp

19 x 20 cm

Loaboratorium2014

Loaboratorium is the research lab of Loa Hlin

Hjalmtysdottir. In the report that was pub-

lished in 2014, research topics included human

misery, among other things. New investigations

have revealed, however, that human misery

is more complicated than previous research

showed. Earlier investigations forgot to account

for exchange students and rain in their calcula-

tions. This changes everything; the results are

almost completely different.

PAPERBACK

96 pp

19 x 20 cm

C O M I C S

“…captures the essence of human existence...the sense of humor is never one-note,

it goes from tragicomic situational comedy to cerebral grotesquerie…from meta-

phorical surrealism to social criticism.”

D V D A I L Y

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Generalizations about nationsAlhæft um þjóðir, 2011

There are generalizations about many nations

in this book. Certainly more about some than

others. Countries are categorized by a com-

plicated system of whims & randon & sudden

epiphanies.

PAPERBACK

72 pp

15 x 11 cm

English translation available

“Loa sometimes takes after Woody Allen—her characters are neurotic

and full of self-doubt…we’re all defendants, we’re all judges…One of the

most important things that successful art does to show us what it’s like

to stand in another’s person’s shoes, to empathize with others, because

at the end of the day, we’re not so different. And this succeeds

really well. We’re waiting with baited breath for more.”

D V D A I L Y

“Loaboratorium separates the wheat from the chaff and exposes us all—it’s a

wonderfully funny and uncomfortably true, but mercifully free of misanthropy.”

R A T I O N A L E O F T H E S E L E C T I O N C O M M I T T E E F O R D V ’ S C U L T U R A L A W A R D

C O M I C S

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T H E F O R L A G I D R I G H T S A G E N C Y

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and Vaka Helgafell, as well as from the Forlagid

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publishing house means that we have something

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to publishers and production companies world-wide

and a great expertise in handling translation rights

to our authors, many of who are amongst the most

successful and critically acclaimed writers in Iceland.

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directly and through sub-agents.

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